46th Annual Founder's Day Event
Saturday, July 19th, 2025
Paris, ME
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
The 46th annual Founder’s Day to support the Hamlin Library and Museum in Paris, Maine was held Saturday July 19, 2025.
The showpiece of the charity event was The Bahre Collection of antique and Classic cars. The collection, housed at the birthplace of Hannibal Hamlin, Abraham Lincoln's first vice-president, is open once a year to the public at the Founder’s Day event.
The collection of over fifty vehicles includes one of the world's finest assemblages of Packards. The Packard collection features Dietrich V-windshield body styles and LeBaron V-windshield body styles on the Packard 12 chassis for 1932-34, the one-off front-wheel-drive prototype sedan, a 1906 Model S touring car and other specialty Packards.
The collection highlights American Classics such as Duesenbergs, Cadillac, Stutz, and Graham-Paige; foreign Classics such as Delahaye, Isotta Fraschini, Hispano-Suiza, Mercedes-Benz and Alfa-Romeo; and an eclectic grouping of brass-era cars (including two electric cars), a Tucker, a Harley-Davidson, the original Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang II from 1921, and later-model sports cars. Along with the vehicles there is an antique doll and toy collection, horse-drawn carriages, player pianos, old phonographs, table-top instruments and a jukebox.
Lunch options were available and there was a craft fair on the Village Green with vendors selling a variety of handcrafted items.
All proceeds benefit the Hamlin Memorial Library & Museum.
This is a rain or shine event held annually on the third Saturday in July.
Contact: (207) 743-2980
Email us at hamlinstaff@gmail.com
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